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I came across this video on Edutopia and just had to post it. The video, Student Body: Classroom Exercise Makes Learning Lively demonstrates “four techniques for mental clarity” that can easily be taught to students. Take a look: We are seeing more and more schools cut recess and physical education from their curricula. Such a shame [...]  Up to now we have been considering the use of eBooks and PDAs for students. This post will look at the use of this technology by teachers, and will consider its use as a direct teaching tool as well as an administrative assistant. Teachers often comment about the number of tasks that must be accomplished wihtout an assistant. At the same time, however, teaching seems to be one of the most resistant professions to change and the incorporiation of technology. Frequently, the failings of technology in the classroom are not from a lack of funding, but from the incomplete “buy-in” from faculty to actually use it. I have a few theories as to why that is—and it’s not just from inadequate training—and also some ideas about how technology, specifically, eBooks, eBook Readers and PDAs could become useful tools for teachers if they were in their hands, and also in the hands of the students. I had long pictured working with DNA to be some abstract and complicated process that took place in far off labs by very experienced scientists. Working with undergraduate students at Brooklyn College, though, they would tell me about their work with DNA and it seemed so common to them. The other day I found the following video [...]
What matters more – the memorization of answers to trivial questions or familiarity with the tools to find the answers? [...]
It is fascinating to read about events such as the American Revolution in a French textbook … 1) History becomes compartmentalized into an abstract string of facts that is not relevant to the world in which we live today. 2) It fosters a seperationist attitude in American students which will become increasingly damaging as the world grows more and more globally connected … So what should be done about this? [...] The Winter 2008 issue of Harvard Educational Review contains an interesting article by Pat Clifford and Susan Marinucci on Inquiry-based Learning. Here is the abstract from the publisher:
The article does an excellent job of explaining the nature of Inquiry-based Learning as a teaching method and addresses many of the common reasons for resistance to this method, such as the concern that it will not meet curriculum standards, that there is not enough time, or that the class will get away from the teacher’s control. |
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Redefining Literacy (eBook Series Part 6)
With the technological advances of the 21st century does it make sense to continue teaching students with a 19th century mindset?, or do we need to update our concept of what it means to be literate in today’s world? [...]